Education: NCLB is a cruel joke. The "standards movement" was mostly originated and championed by a group of Democratic Governors like Clinton in Arkansas and Reilly in South Carolina. What Bush et al have done is take whatever was good about the system (identifying schools in need and trying to fix the problem) and turn it into a destructive force, with failure to reach impossible goals leading to a gradual strangulation of a school. But, again, it's important to note that even if you like the idea of standards (and there are some things that are valuable), it's primarily a Democratic idea on a policy level.

Health Care: You imply the GOP has anything to say about health care? Please. They've tried to thwart every attempt to do anything about the system, while attempting to piggyback on the issue to stick it to a group they perceive as a primary source of Democratic funds: trial lawyers. Medical malpractice reform does nothing about the health care crisis in this country.

Medicare & SS: There's no problem with Social Security. No crisis. Nada. The system is solvent for decades and decades. The GOP likes to lump it in as an "entitlement crisis" because there is a genuine problem coming down the pike with Medicare. But that's because of the broken health care system in this country, where, again, the GOP is trying desperately to keep any reform from happening.

The GOP has no solutions to any problem. Their entire domestic agenda consists of tax cuts and rollbacks of liberal ideas. It's an inherently destructive agenda.

The GOP is like an anti-body to a governmental bureaucracy out of control. It can be useful in attacking wasteful government and keeping the civic/economic life of the country clean. But, right now, this country has an auto-immune disease, a political AIDS that is leaving our society defenseless against a whole host of ills: poverty, disease, economic disparities, environmental degradation, outside aggression in the form of terrorism, rapacious globalism, the list goes on.